The End of life care economic tool is for CCGs. You can estimate return on investment and the impact of interventions in your local area, to help make decisions around commissioning cost-effective palliative and end of life care.

The Weight management economic assessment tool is for local authorities. It can help you see the financial benefits of current adult weight management programmes or ones that you’re considering. You can enter your own local data and see forecasts of up to 25 years.

The Menu of public health interventions describes actions that can be taken locally to give a potential return on investment. Some of the main areas where prevention programmes have saved money and improved health are:

alcohol

tobacco

hypertension

contraception

falls

You can use return on investment tools from NICE (the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence) to compare the cost-effectiveness of a range of interventions. These include:

tobacco

alcohol

physical activity

social wellbeing

children, young people and pregnant women

Comparing spend and outcomes

The Spend and outcome tool (SPOT) is for CCGs and local authorities. It gives a broad overview of spend and outcomes across a range of public health interventions.

The tool doesn’t estimate return on investment but you can use it alongside ROI tools. Every CCG and local authority in England has a bespoke factsheet within the tool and you can compare against similar local areas.

Diabetes and cardiovascular disease tools look at the relationship between spending on treatment and care and local clinical outcomes for patients: